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Real Life

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Présentation de l'éditeur SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING CHOICE 'A new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir.' -- The New Yorker 'A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.' -- Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future. Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction. 'A stunning debut . . . There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.' -- New York Times 'This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish I d had sooner.' -- Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'Extraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book.' -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under Revue de presse 'Astonishingly accomplished . . . Brandon Taylor has written a truly exquisite story of love, sex, death, and microbes that is both intimate and expansive.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Unquestionably the queer novel of the year . . . An essential novel from a truly exciting new writer.' -- Irish Times 'Psychologically compelling, incisively satirical, told in a muted style that nevertheless accesses a full emotional range, this is a brilliant book, worthy of a wide audience.' -- Observer ' Real Life is a campus novel in the tradition of Sally Rooney and Ben Lerner, and Taylor is as good as either of them - a sharp, witty and generous writer.' -- Literary Review 'An elegant take on the 'campus novel' and a deeply moving study of race, grief and desire.' -- Sunday Times 'With the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope . . . Precise and masterly.' -- Financial Times 'The prose is exact and clear; Taylor has a keen sensitivity for surface detail.' -- The Times 'With its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylor's novel is a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.' -- Guardian 'Taylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.' -- Telegraph 'A great American novel, a great college novel, a great summer novel, a great queer novel, a great novel of life as it has always been lived by young people waiting for their 'real life' to begin, and just a really, really great novel . . . The best novel I've read this year.' -- Dazed ' Real Life beautifully dissects themes of loss, rejection, sexual violence and racism with forensic, but compassionate insight.' -- Uli Lenard, Attitude Magazine 'There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.' -- Jeremy O. Harris, New York Times 'A new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir. -- The New Yorker 'A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Présentation de l'éditeur SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING CHOICE 'A new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir.' -- The New Yorker 'A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.' -- Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn't go back for the funeral, and he hasn't told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future. Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction. 'A stunning debut . . . There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.' -- New York Times 'This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish I d had sooner.' -- Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'Extraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book.' -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under Revue de presse 'Astonishingly accomplished . . . Brandon Taylor has written a truly exquisite story of love, sex, death, and microbes that is both intimate and expansive.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Unquestionably the queer novel of the year . . . An essential novel from a truly exciting new writer.' -- Irish Times 'Psychologically compelling, incisively satirical, told in a muted style that nevertheless accesses a full emotional range, this is a brilliant book, worthy of a wide audience.' -- Observer ' Real Life is a campus novel in the tradition of Sally Rooney and Ben Lerner, and Taylor is as good as either of them - a sharp, witty and generous writer.' -- Literary Review 'An elegant take on the 'campus novel' and a deeply moving study of race, grief and desire.' -- Sunday Times 'With the rigour of the laboratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope . . . Precise and masterly.' -- Financial Times 'The prose is exact and clear; Taylor has a keen sensitivity for surface detail.' -- The Times 'With its icily cool sentences, mysterious tonal shifts and determinedly open ending, Taylor's novel is a curiously liquid thing, with troubling, opaque depths.' -- Guardian 'Taylor is a masterful observer, his details of everything from a tennis match to sex and dissections both clinically and exquisitely precise.' -- Telegraph 'A great American novel, a great college novel, a great summer novel, a great queer novel, a great novel of life as it has always been lived by young people waiting for their 'real life' to begin, and just a really, really great novel . . . The best novel I've read this year.' -- Dazed ' Real Life beautifully dissects themes of loss, rejection, sexual violence and racism with forensic, but compassionate insight.' -- Uli Lenard, Attitude Magazine 'There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.' -- Jeremy O. Harris, New York Times 'A new kind of campus novel . . . Taylor endows his narrative with the precision of science and the intimacy of memoir. -- The New Yorker 'A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Real Life
Editeur
Daunt Books
Publication
30 juillet 2020
Pages
336
Taille
19.8 x 12.9 x 1.8 cm
Poids
365
ISBN-13
9781911547747
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